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Token prices could be significantly lower, but inference companies are inflating them by renting GPUs and adding margins of over 40%, according to an unnamed analyst. These companies have current business because they st…
Noah Shinn's AI assistant startup Instinct is in talks to raise at least $200 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion, according to Forbes, four months after the former Sierra researcher founded the company. Benchmark …
X1, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Manil Lakabi, launched an AI app builder on August 26 that guides users from idea to App Store submission by asking questions and planning before writing code, targeting iPhon…
Anthropic has agreed to spend roughly $45 billion over six years renting AI computing capacity from Nscale's planned data center campus in Mason County, West Virginia, covering about 460 megawatts of power, according to …
A 64-year-old engineer who left a large technology company for a private AI startup and began collecting Social Security may have his benefits withheld because restricted stock that vests counts as wages under the Social…
Anthropic, the AI lab reportedly preparing for a $2 trillion IPO, is expected to tell investors its total addressable market is worth more than $30 trillion, a figure that eclipses China's GDP and is roughly equal to the…
BoxGroup's $750,000 initial investment in AI coding startup Cursor, plus follow-on checks, is set to return about $1 billion after SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60 billion, the largest VC-backed acquisition ever. Founder D…
Insurance companies are voiding coverage for losses arising from AI due to vague clauses released by ISO in January, creating a nightmare for frontier tech companies. Risklytics, a YC S26 startup, is building a specializ…
Anthropic is set to lease a data center from NScale in a deal valued at $45 billion, adding to its total compute commitments that have surpassed $150 billion as of mid-2026. The Claude maker has also signed a roughly $19…
MiniMax's revenue nearly quadrupled to $116.6 million in the first half of 2026, up 283.1% from $30.4 million a year earlier, but its adjusted net loss widened 111.2% to $293 million. The Shanghai-based AI lab, founded i…
Transfyr launched on August 26 with $25 million in seed funding to capture hands-on laboratory work and convert it into machine-readable data for AI and robots. General Catalyst led the round, with participation from Lux…
Deep Cogito raised $43 million in a Series A round led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons, and Zscaler, to build specialized AI models that …
Noteworthy AI, founded by CEO Christopher Ricciuti, raised $15,009,995 in an equity offering, according to an SEC Form D filed August 26, with 18 investors and a target of $18,234,987, leaving $3,224,992 available. The N…
On August 13th, Samuel Gold and Alexander Risio launched Risklytics, a San Francisco commercial insurance brokerage for companies deploying AI agents and autonomous systems, with backing from Y Combinator. The brokerage …
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform formerly known as GPT Engineer, is pivoting to enable agents to use apps directly, with CTO Fabian Hedin describing a future where users interact with a single entry point fo…
Risklytics, a Y Combinator S26-backed insurance brokerage, launched to provide commercial insurance for frontier tech companies deploying AI and robotics, with packages starting at $500 per year for prototypes. The compa…
Martin Casado, who leads a16z's infrastructure team, said individual venture capitalists claiming credit for deals is 'a historical relic,' arguing that modern venture investing is a team effort. His comments follow a16z…
Perceptron, a $21 million startup founded by former Meta researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, released Isaac 0.5, an open-weight model designed to handle perception, reasoning, and control for factory-flo…
Perceptron AI, a Bellevue, Washington-based startup founded in late 2024, launched its Perceptron Mk1 vision-language model on May 12, claiming it processes factory video at 80-90% lower cost than comparable models from …
Oliver AI, founded by Praneet Sharma, Grace Johnson, and Toby O'Brien, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round from Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures to build an analytical database for AI agents. The company claims b…